Pensively Quotes

#1. November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.
"That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

Louisa May Alcott

#2. Lady Mary nodded and smiled sadly. "There is nothing in this life that is certain but death," she stated pensively.
"And tariffs, Mama," added Jerome. At that Lady Mary laughed.

Jocelyn Murray

#3. How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied.
'You mean to die?' asked Pooh.
'Yes and no,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.

A.A. Milne

#4. The chamber grew suddenly silent, the only other person with first-hand knowledge of the matter staring pensively at the floor.

Marcha A. Fox

#5. I think anxiety is very interesting, observed Amy, eating sugar pensively.

Louisa May Alcott

#6. Perhaps," said the Doctor pensively. "It may also be that you Americans are work-cultists, and work is the structure that holds you up, not the joy of pure living.

Anais Nin

#7. What is your name?"
"Again sir, that is no concern of yours."
"A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda."
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"Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?"
"Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.

Georgette Heyer

#8. No one can tell you what your path is," she had told Justine. "But someday you'll discover it." She had smiled pensively. "And it won't be at all what you expected.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

Margaret Cho

#10. I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

Marcia Cross

#11. On a cultural level, I think the absence of honest conversation about the hard work that takes us from lying facedown in the arena to rising strong has led to two dangerous outcomes: the propensity to gold-plate grit and a badassery deficit.

Brene Brown

#12. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Gautama Buddha

#13. The aim of Mathematical Physics is not only to facilitate for the physicist the numerical calculation of certain constants or the integration of certain differential equations. It is besides, it is above all, to reveal to him the hidden harmony of things in making him see them in a new way.

Henri Poincare

#14. Istas, please don't eat my mice. They're very important to me, and besides, it's rude to eat anything you've been introduced to.

Seanan McGuire

#15. If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. Until we can be together again ... we wait ... and believe!

CLAMP

#17. Art is love and it covers. It sheilds.

Chrisette Michele

#18. Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.

George Lois

#19. Left-handed pitchers get paid a lot of money to get left-handed guys out or else they wouldn't be in there. They feel confident going up against lefties. If you look at most lefties' numbers, typically they happen to be better against lefties than against righties. That's all it is.

Curtis Granderson

#20. As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world.

Stephen Batchelor